Bad Science: The Fiction and the Reality of The Matrix
- Matt Smith for Seeker (with link to podcast)
- August 11, 2018
- Source: https://www.seeker.com/culture/bad-science-the-fiction-and-the-reality-of-the-matrix
… In this week’s episode of Seeker’s Bad Science podcast, host Ethan Edberg and his guests delve into the story and the science behind [The Matrix]. Ethan is joined by Saturday Night Live writers Steven Castillo and Julio Torres, as well as computer scientist and philosopher Cristoph Salge, a visiting fellow at the Game Innovation Lab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. … Salge recently oversaw a competition for developers to test the creative potential of computers by programing them to build their own settlements in the popular video came Minecraft. The process, known as procedural content generation, has also been used to program environments in different games or design imaginary spacecraft, he said.
